Silicon-Info VS CoolProp

It's a free, open-source utility that someone has generously released to the public. I find it useful. I often install and run lots of different apps and open-source things, and sometimes it's convenient to be able to just look at an icon in the menu bar to confirm whether something is running under Rosetta or not. Other people find it useful too. Just because you don't have a use for it, doesn't mean nobody else in the world does either.

> Curious to see what, if anything, is running under translation

There's a useful app called Silicon Info on Github (https://github.com/billycastelli/Silicon-Info) and also on the Mac App Store.

It adds a menu bar icon that switches according to the currently-focused app's architecture.

{ pkgs ? import (fetchTarball "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/b58ada326aa612ea1e2fb9a53d550999e94f1985.tar.gz") {} }: pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation rec { pname = "silicon-info"; version = "1.0.3"; src = pkgs.fetchurl { url = "https://github.com/billycastelli/Silicon-Info/releases/download/1.0.3/Silicon.Info.app.zip"; sha256 = "raa6RmXiqilz4vrvWfMSzIKuaJUFI2xMLUErw64Y0Pk="; }; installPhase = '' mkdir -p $out/Applications mv "Silicon Info.app" $out/Applications ''; meta = with pkgs.lib; { description = "Silicon Info is a tiny menu bar application allows the user to quickly view the architecture of the currently running application."; license = licenses.mit; homepage = "https://github.com/billycastelli/Silicon-Info"; platforms = platforms.darwin; }; }

Of course, it is free and open source (check out the code on Github!).

If you already own an Apple Silicon Mac and want to know which apps are running natively as opposed to via Rosetta 2 translation, you can download Silicon Info and see a report of the apps

I'm not sure OP is the developer, but moreso someone trying to just share.. mac app news. I feel the picture and description is self explanatory if you have one, but the full github release is here: https://github.com/billycastelli/Silicon-Info

I did have a gander, but the error is a bit beyond me. Others had reported a similar issue; https://github.com/CoolProp/CoolProp/issues/1872 but the workaround there didn't work for me.

For me it's been quite entirely painless. I've even used Time Machine to migrate from a 2012 Intel iMac to an Apple Silicon Mac Mini and it worked perfectly!

The two pain points:

1. No support for running older virtualized macOS. I like to test back to 10.9 and need an Intel Mac to do that.

2. One Python wheel which doesn't have Apple Silicon builds and doesn't build cleanly: https://github.com/CoolProp/CoolProp/issues/2003

Then you have github, where you can find very good thinks like CoolProp or the one that was posted before.